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Manual Pages — NULL

NAME

null – the null device

CONTENTS

DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY

DESCRIPTION

The null device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file - but throws it away. The length of the null device is always zero.

FILES

`/dev/null`

SEE ALSO

full(4), zero(4)

HISTORY

A null device appeared in AT&T v4 .

August 30, 2019

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